CLR Book Club – Week 1, 2017 January 3, 2017

First up considerable credit to all those who managed to keep the Book Club going across a fair number of weeks last year. However it might be no harm given how it began to falter to rethink the approach.

I’ve a couple of suggestions. How about we select two or three texts, perhaps chapters from longer works, vote on which one to go for, and read it across a month, as an initial test. That limits the need to focus on a longer work and means that the assessment can be made more rapidly.

Then we have some suggestions for longer works and go with them subsequently? Or we could stick with chapters from longer works until we’re comfortable with the format.

acquiring the book can be avoided if we opt for something that can be read as a download eg from Gutenburg . If people like the text they can always then shell out for the book if they want to.
Reading and commenting can’t be avoided but a book chapter or short essay/story as selected topic should make for a less arduous committment

I’d be more inclined to go along with a fiction reading. As YC says, most of us are probably up to our ears in non-fiction by default anyhow, so it’s nice to have the change and the challenge of reading something out of the ordinary.